"We have decided in conjunction with our security officer we
will not allow musical instruments in the ground."

Cooper was prevented from playing during the 2006-07 Ashes
series in Australia, sparking a row between the famous England
supporters' group and the cricket hierarchy.

Yorkshire have also increased steward levels for the match and
will close bars for one hour during afternoons.

The moves come amid concerns over unruly crowd behaviour,
particularly during the second and third Tests.

Australian captain Ricky Ponting was booed and jeered at Lord's
and Edgbaston, prompting England and Wales Cricket Board chairman
Giles Clarke to call for an end to the insults.

Clarke has written in the Headingley match program that Ponting
has earned the respect and courtesy of the crowd and that the game
may never see his like again.

He asks supporters to respect both teams in the critical clash
starting Friday with England leading the five-match series 1-0.

But Ponting has said he wasn't bothered by the crowd reception,
and was joined by teammates Marcus North and Shane Watson in
praising the atmosphere during the series.

The editor of the Barmy Army website, Paul Winslow, says the Barmy
Army is sometimes unfairly blamed for poor crowd behaviour.

"Headingley has its own sort of unique crowd issues," editor of the
Barmy Army website Paul Winslow told radio 3AW.

"It gets a bit boisterous and bit loud on the western terrace.
They're trying to calm it down a little bit so they took
independent advice on how to calm the crowd down a bit and
they’ve decided they didn't want the trumpeter there."

"The biggest problem for us is that any bad behaviour gets termed
Barmy Army, but not everybody who goes to watch cricket in England
is in the Barmy Army," Winslow said.

"We had 500 seats allocated to us at Edgbaston and as far I could
tell most of our guys weren’t booing and all respect him as
one of the greatest to have ever played the game.

"We get tarred with the brush of having done it. But the ironic
thing is Ponting ... turned around today and said he doesn’t
think it’s that bad. It’s part and parcel of the game
and he said the Barmy Army are the best sports fans in the
world."

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